India Docks, Starship Explodes & Iron Dome Comes To The USA - Deep Space Updates January 29th
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- I recorded this two days ago, but then the plane crash in Washington DC distracted me..... regardless it was late enough that I needed to finish this up.
We had both Blue Origin's New Glenn and SpaceX's Starship within hours of each other. The First really detailed Bennu sample results were published and Trump decided he liked the name 'Iron Dome' but appears to have asked for something the US can actually use.
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I'm old enough to remember when it was "Will there be any launches this year?"
Now its "How many launches will there be today?" 😁🚀
I'm from the "will it explode on the launch pad" generation, so yeah, this many successful launches in just 1 month is pretty amazing
The last time that happened was 1957, mainly because it was the first year of spaceflight. By the mid 60's there were about 100 launches per year.
Remember the days when a couple of launches a week was considered a heavy world wide launch schedule.
We need a counter in the corner of the screen, and a record for the most launches in a month.
Heck, I remember when two launches within four months was sprinting.
Remember the time when two launches on the same year was HUGE!
I didn't think launches would become not worth watching, with the satellite spamming. There are more exciting launches than ever as well, though. Several real players entering the arena this year and next year. So, the quantity of more interesting flights will go up for sure.
@@toweri_li 1957 then?
I just got caught up with the the Bennu mission, crazy to think we grabbed a sample off a freaking asteroid, sent it home, and it actually arrived safely. Now Osiris is off to Apophis, this seems like some kind of KSP mission, lol. Hard to wrap one's head around being able to study a sample of material that could date back billions of years and was a part of the formation of our solar system.
I never get tired of watching the chopstick footage, the engineering involved in CATCHING a rocket like that is mind-blowing. The pace of launches around the world is wild, videos like yours are almost required in order to even hope to keep up with everything.
Problem with Apophis is that he's on his way with two motherships to destroy the Earth
@@Trek001 Get O'Neill on the horn, the one with TWO Ls, the other guy is a jerk.
i guess nazis really just are better at rockets than the rest of us. elon is a return to form for america.
Scott,
One of the cool things for Suni Williams getting to stay on the ISS a lot longer was during her last spacewalk she now has more EVA time than any other American woman, beating the record previously held by Peggy Whitson.
Thing to note is that Peggy Whitson still has more EVAs - they just were shorter on average.
Within a week Sunita Williams will be the 12th person with most cumulative time in space, and third active astronaut in terms of most time in space.
Pretty cool, actually! Wish her nothing but the best.
I bet she will feel miserable when she returns to earth. 😞 Poor women has to spend months of extra time up there.
Williams is just an example of what will happen to humans going to Mars. They'll be stranded while breaking all kinds of records.
I look forward to the day we stop caring about such minuscule achievements. When was the last time more than a few people cared who the latest folks to get to the top of Everest are?
Cool to hear more from Stokes. They are doing weird stuff, and weird stuff is how you make leaps in progress.
Or fail miserably and never be heard from again, but still entertaining though! ❤️
Scott, this was a really great episode. Lots of news, lots of well-constructed humor, fun Chinese words, you know, everything. Seriously, I thoroughly enjoyed it. Thankyou!
Butch and Sunni were stranded test pilots for about a week. They received a lateral transfer while on mission and are now members of Crew 9. They are not stranded test pilots anymore.
Thanks for addressing chiral issues with the simple amino acids found. Like Urey-Miller experiment failure to explain life
I've never been here this early to a Scott Manley video now that I'm here I don't know what to do. Hello, Scott? Love your videos been watching since ksp days. :D
Same here lol 😂
Just do what he always suggests: fly safe! 😊
Hi early, im dad, nice to meet you.
serious buisness was such a great series.
OMG....How about just watch the bloody video without exploding in your pants🤮
I appreciate a channel that reports space news that doesn't fan-boi for Musk
Ain't that the truth.
It's Heilon now.
Who?
Stop gaslighting, Name the channels or be silent.
@@WayoutthereMarcus House, What About It, Space flight Now.
Starliner Calypso was doomed from the point it was given that name. Naming it after a Greek goddess who is cursed to be stranded on an island for eternity is asking for trouble.
Great Job Mr. Manley. I think your head was designed by a Space travel biased AI robot. Sly Fafe dude! Thanks!
I love these long videos talking about everything to do with the space industry keep up the great work
I get the feeling we are STILL accelerating into space, more and more happening every time Scott does a round-up. As one who remembers the excitement of individual launches, well, the change is dramatic enough; but it's not so long since Scott was commenting on having two launches on the same day as being quite remarkable. Now, a month's worth of launches is a long list to be rattled off, and the two launches on the same day (almost) are Starship and New Shepherd, huge new strides.
It's New Glenn
MOM! ....Scott Manley poked me in the eye!
at least it wasn't a roman salute!
Bro just said india would collaborate with china 😂 ,for everyone this won't happen
We need that DJ set! DJ manley would be astronomical
Thanks for covering RFA. European space doesn't get enough love. I am very excited to see HARPS3 go online.
Europeans interested in space should use this window of opportunity to emigrate to USA
@@YuenanCaoWith the current political climate in the US I wouldn't want to move there if I were paid for it. I think many Europeans feel the same.
When some boss tells me to do something I'm already doing I usually get pissed not jumping up and down with happiness.
If you're a CEO whose fortunes and hundreds of thousands of employees livelihoods partially depend on how the President feels you say what he wants you to say.
@@czinn327 If you're a CEO whose fortunes partially depend on how the President feels you say what he wants you to say.
There, I fixed it.
@@czinn327 I think the CEO is only looking out for one livelihood: his own. His crazy salutes aren't those of a guy who cares much about others.
Regarding the Mars sample return mission, it's a sad fact that history only remembers those who were first, not those who were best. 😢
Never heard of this drone strike on Starship - can you or someone else explain more?
Good point, i was also confused about this.
simpel explanation, i was confused at first too. The first raptor that failed was hit by a drone while recording footage as it was still on a trailer pulled by a cybertruck. Obviously no damage was seen afterwards. Thus it is most likely just a coincident that it was the one to fail first.
At least that's my first association.
@Schinkeldink That was an RVac tho, and the first engine to fail was a SL. There's a 1/3 chance that it's the Steve Austin engine tho
Jeff Bezos will explain
@@Dagobert-jw2lc yeah, good point. was just the first thing that came to mind
12 SpaceX launches in one month thats crazy i remember when we would have gotten 1 launch a week and thought that's amazing
Even though I live in Russia and we have everything here... average... I never cease to rejoice at the success of humanity as a whole in space exploration.
Maybe it’s time to stop the war before rejoicing too much ?
@@A31415 I don't think it's up to him
@@UploaderGuy3000 of course, he doesn’t live in the country waging a war. Oh wait…
@@A31415 what do you expect him to do?
@@UploaderGuy3000 what did we do when the wars in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq were waged by our country ? We protested, we were electing different politicians who eventually stopped the wars. There are no protests in Russia. Zero. Why? Ah, of course, because they are afraid for their lives. That’s why Putin isn’t going anywhere, war will continue and the humble Russian space exploration lovers will continue to rejoice at the success of humanity.
Always interesting to see what other countries and companies are doing. When I watch other channels you would think North America are the only people launching frequently! Thanks Scott. Do you have any inside info on when Raptor 3 will actually start to be used?
Nope, actually Canada, the USA, and Mexico are indeed the only ones launching rockets
15:00 missed Japan also. Jaxa has the HTV.
I also wanted to mention it but an argument could be made that it berthed instead of docking
@ImieNazwiskoOK Oh, you are correct. I did not know they only berthed. Thanks for bringing that up.
@ImieNazwiskoOK Exactly the case... HTV wasn't capable of docking; it required the ISS to reach out and grab it with the arm.
The Japanese HTV berths with ISS and do not docks with ISS, the ATV of ESA uses Russian Docking system and not Europe made docking system.
@@philosopherfrombed According to Wikipedia, the ATV docking system was made by Airbus. The Russian Kurs system acted as back-up and the whole thing obviously was made to go together with the Zvesda module on ISS.
I'm sure Butch and Suni love their job, but I sincerely doubt they're thrilled about a one week mission turning into a year...
Yes. Also the point is that the hugely-extended stay was _unplanned_ and was due to _risk of failure_ with ULA's return vehicle! Illustrates the benefits of competition but also that ULA kit is less reliable sadly due to it being a sclerotic organisation which is now up-for-sale.
@@RussTilllingIsn't it a Boeing vehicle instead of a ULA one?
I wonder if there going to get payed over-time for it 🤨
@@mangatom192 Your point is valid but honestly at this point Old Space seems to be doing its level best to out-crappify each of its component parts. ULA, Boeing, Bechtel etc etc etc poor designs, lack of testing, non-rigorous resting when done, hardware-poor development cycles, slipped deadlines, grotesquely over-budget programs, multi-year delays.... It appears to be a distinction without a difference.
Peaceful Skies
@@RussTilllingI’m not sure how unplanned you should say their stay is. Obviously it wasn’t the main plan, but I would be surprised to hear that NASA didn’t already have backup plans for this test flight. I mean, they have backup plans for the *regular* missions, so I would expect that to go double for a test. Not to say plan B/C are not much more awkward than plan A, but it’s no Apollo 13.
The Eaton Fire destroyed a house only 400 meters or 1/4 mile from the East Gate of JPL, so it was very close.
Thanks Scott
Tank you for the update Mr. Manley. Teenage boy "trapped on a nude beach full of supermodels" is quite possibly one of the most apt analogies I have ever heard for circumstances such as this.
Peaceful Skies
My university has send thier first cube sat of on one of those falcon9 rideshare launches. They have a selfie stick with a display and a spectroscometer, they are also planning to receive data throughout their custom antenna at the campus
I think you do a rather good job at thumbnails Scott. Really I'm okay with anything else as long as it's not some fake or CGI creation that's actually never going to be shown in the video.
There was a time when every launch felt like a spectacle; now, they’re so frequent we almost take them for granted.
22:26 Oh man, and now my family is wondering why I’m randomly laughing hysterically
😂
Scott I am incredibly disappointed when talking about Star Wars that you did not take the opportunity to say "disney would probably shoot that down"
Great video nonetheless 😁
I'd like to add that both ballistic missile defense, AND domestic drine defense are both going to need significant investment and deployment over the next years or so
iron dome sucks though. irn true promise two mission had 90% hit rate. the s300 & s400 are far far superior. is it really that hard to clone the s300 or s400 , america really is falling behind in everything it's not even funny anymore.
@@James_Ford4815Delusional.
@@James_Ford4815 comparing Iron Dome to S300 and S400 is crazy😭 Patriot is the western equivalent, with David's Sling being Israel's.
It's not needed. Your president is insane. Putin doesn't even talk like this
''Drines'' are awesome.
As a DJ myself I'm Hyped to hear your set Scott!
9:11 ...Korben Dallas?
18:31 The reason wires are used for communication in satellites instead of blinky lights or fiber optics are plentiful. There is in increase in power usage, which amounts to more radiator area needed (canceling out the weight savings). LEDs are a generally slower data rate, though that's less important than now needing to optically shield all other semiconductor junctions, since photons will cause arbitrary switching. LEDs are also not consistent in color across wide temperature ranges, and they tend to continue to glow after being turned off. They also glow slightly when naturally rectifying ambient electromagnetic fields.
...the real answer is to use fewer wires, but adopt a commonly used and well understood network scheme to make a redundant and error-resistant "SCAN" or Space Craft Area Network. It solves the wires issue, but is still a bigger target for cosmic rays to strike the gubbins and cause errors. Fortunately, if you use a mesh-type network, where each device can forward messages in case of a loss of direct connection, you will actually gain communications redundancy instead of losing it.
Oh he said Dallas? I swear I heard him say Davos.. I though he joinded the dark side.
You comment on the optical communications rang a bell. I remember Lee Hart (I think) either built or or proposed a battery monitor that had the protection modules using led flashes to communicate their status instead of a mess of tiny wires. Different frequencies and a basic FFT would allow you to discriminate channels. Fun.
Scott, synthesizing ritonovir form III in space and vardas platform is worthy of its own video, not some passing comment!
Hi Scott, could you consider doing a show on the tracking of all the satellites in Leo and other orbits ? Surely with all the launches this is becoming more complex. How is a launch coordinated to minimise collision risk ? Thx in advance.
FWIW, the 80s initiative was more properly the Strategic Defensive, or SDI. It got nicknamed Star Wars for the obvious reasons.
And it was an utter, very expensive, failure.
@@knightsnight5929 or was it? I assume the point was to bankrupt the USSR, who wouldn't be able to keep up, although the Mujahedeen in Afghanistan made the same claim. The nearest the USSR could get was Polyus/Skif-DM, which horrified Gorbachev, plus it was delivered into the ocean rather than orbit.
@@knightsnight5929 I think that's a matter of perspective. We didn't field technologies exactly in accord with the original concepts. We DID develop and field other technologies, We also provoked the Soviets to compete. Democrats in Congress would never have agreed to the latter; Reagan may still have intended it.
The OCCSat or whatever is a real old idea. We were looking at that in the ‘80s at Fairchild Space Co. You will still need hard lines for power distribution, but the I/F electronics for the LEDs will be a lot smaller to make the mass savings worthwhile.
As to the asteroid I have two questions.
#1 What sort of asteroid is it? Carbonaceous? Metallic? Silicaceous?
#2 How solid is it? Is it a single body or a gravel pile?
The answers to these questions may enable us to work on the potential of capturing and parking it in orbit for study and/or mining. If for no other reason than as practice for bigger asteroids in the future.
Capturing the thing is out of the question. How would you even do that? 2024YR4 has an aphelion somewhere close Jupiter and a mass that likely exceeds 50Kt. (=sphere with 40m diameter and 1.5t/m³)
If we ever wanted to capture an asteroid (for whatever reason) we would need to start with easier ones than that.
DJ set?? Ooooo la la!
I guess India saying it is 4th country to have performed docking is a correct statement, because other contenders like HTV of Japan and ATV of Europe have following things to keep in mind:
i). Japanese HTV don't docks it gets berthed with ISS.
ii). European ATV does docks with ISS but uses Russian docking system and not Europe's indigenously developed docking system.
I can be wrong as well and hence I want to know what you guys think??
Discuss....
The ATV docking system was from Airbus. The docking adapter was indeed a Russian design (because it docked with Zvesda), but similarly ISRO used the international open-source design for their adapter.
4th or 6 th doesn't matter since it will help INDIA IN FUTURE mission like chandrayaan 4 and build indian space station.
Europ is not a country
@@RADIUM108 It's not even spelled like that!
@adityagajjar3118it even can not release the footage ，just animation 😂
I love waking up to your videos. So informative and accurate. Well done as usual sir.
16:50, AWW MANLEY... I WAS AWAITING SEEING Lake Tahoe....
9:30 holy cow what is falling off that thing? almost looks like they had a scaffolding around the rocket that got demolished as it lifted off 😅
They put loose fitting insulation tiles around the upper stage to help keep the LOX and fuel cool during the wind up to launch. Not needed once it lifts off, so they're designed to fall away so they don't have to carry the weight to space.
- "First engine that failed was also the one seen to have a drone strike" - I feel dumb, but was this a joke or did an engine get hit by a drone? I looked it up but nothing, someone please save me...
Tesla did a commercial for the Cyber truck towing a trailer with a Raptor engine. The camera drone filming the drive didn't move out of the way in a kind of driveby shot and it flew against the Raptor engine on the trailer.
@@matthijs_ Thanks, ok yea I think I remember hearing something like that before.
LabPadre has a video on it from a year ago
Don't worry, this is just a coincidence. The reason for failure is an overpressure event in the engine bay due to a fire.
Omg why does it even matter lol
DJ Scott Manley is CRAZY 🤣
One other cool thing the Swedish armed forces recently revealed was that on Transporter-11 they had a military test cubesat named Gna-3 with a mass of 4 kg.
saw one of these spacex launches while out for a morning walk. and the landing burn too.
i do appreciate that nasa is still prioritizing good science over speed. getting there first will b impressive once, good data will b studied for decades to come.
I prefer the word "efficiency".
If it wasn't for Elon NASA would be decades behind China. Maybe taking some chances is a good thing for progress.
I was amused that Butch and Suni were out on a spacewalk the day of that announcement. Seriously, there's no way to send a ship to pick them up because the ISS docking ports are full. Thanks for your update, Scott!!
You know, even though i have watched every video for years, i wasn't going to watch this one, until i daw that amazing thumbnail and it just drew me in.
Great update video Scott, at some point you could do one on the time line of launching another DART mission, for reasons. Looking forward to hearing more about the Bennu sample return, I lost track of them having trouble opening the return canister.
Poor teenage boy! We need to get him safely back to his parents ASAP! 😮
Poor kid doesn’t have an internet connection! The boredom must be unbearable. 😂
''We''? (o.0)
Your idea...you do it!
Hey Scott,
I have been doing a writing boot camp for WAI for a role as a writer for them. Do you use a writer and help with the editing? I am gaining a much larger appreciation for what this takes to actually make.
Didn't all nuclear superpowers agree to not develop anti-ballistic defence systems!? To prevent another arms race!?
That kinda went out the window with the collapse of the Soviet Union. The Navy's had the SM-3 for over a decade, and the Army's had the THAAD for even longer, though THAAD is more intended for use against IRBMs like Scud. Then there's GMD, Ground-Based Midcourse Defense, which are the 'big boy' interceptors that cover the west coast.
Given the increasing number of conventionally-armed ballistic missiles, it's no surprise that interceptor systems have seen a similar increase in development.
@@griffinfaulkner3514 Reckless. That just means world ending arms race part two... to ensure M.A.D... as no country on earth would ever "Submit" to another.
Like Biological weapons for example...
The agreement gave them both permission to build an ABMS with a limited geographical extent to protect their ICBM silos. The USSR built theirs but the US developed one but then scrapped it for political reasons.
The US withdrew from the ABM treaty in 2002.
At 10:47 Scott says, "...its a very complicated thing." Well yes, it IS rocket science. The canonical example of the hardest thing to do in American English.
I saw the title and wondered why Scott Manley was talking about the London Docklands, but then realised its not "East India Docks"...
Looking forward to the DJ set !
That Shirt! I have the same shirt as you and don't know where I got it from. Where did you get that shirt from?
It's from an Apple Engineering thing apparently??
Amazing that we're at the point where you can just rattle off: "Starlink: 21 satellites" several times, and it's just routine.
22:20 "Oh, no! That fiesty little four-year old somehow managed to crawl inside the claw machine with all the toys!"
Scott, you should do a longer video on the history of missile defense, particularly the ground-based midcourse defense portion. It’s an interesting story.
6:13 ..... drone strike??? Whaaaa? who??? huh???? can you say more about this??????
During the production of a promotion video with a cybertruck towing a raptor they hit s drone flying
SCOTT QQ: Have you done any commentary on movies showing space travel? Spacedock seems to stay in fictional Sci-Fi land. Example: Tom Hanks on Apollo 13. How big was he versus the rocket on the scene with the Saturn 5 transport tractor?
Is Mark Rober one who must not be named?
I was like, does Scott Manly have beef with Mark Rober?
@@Bdude1111 He will probably pay Scott to get his face in for the next episode.
Using an Ion Rocket for the sample return mission might be a great way to do this right?
stranded in space...🤔 stranded with supermodels... 🤔
stranded in space...🤔🤔 stranded with supermodels... 🤔🤔
stranded in space...🤔🤔🤔 stranded with supermodels... 🤔🤔🤔
I dunno... this isn't such a clearcut choice for me...
And then there is "stranded in space WITH Supermodels"...
@@paulholmes672 - that's why Scott's suddenly going the DJ route
@@paulholmes672 So long as it's supermodels, not HAL....
One thing that makes no sense to me is the current design of the Mars sample return capsule has it being ejected horizontally from the lander and then quickly flipping in the air via retrorockets to get vertical so it can escape from Mars. Why not just rotate the return capsule on the lander vertically then light the engines? Seems a heck of a lot simpler.
As far as I am aware, there is currently no design for a MSR vehicle. You are probably referring to the artistic renders of how it might look like, but no-one is actually building anything yet. If you know more about this that I do, please the me know.
22:56 If he continues his current “diplomacy” he may need a short range missile defence… Canada is not to be trifled with 🇨🇦😂
While Canada's current government is idiotic, they aren't stupid enough to go to war with the US. Nobody would come out of that happy.
lol. Dying laughing.
Canada?!? Does Canada even have a standing army?
@@Thorgon-Cross They do. They were in Afghanistan during OEF.
@rhumal Of course they do, that is what makes it SOOO obvious that I, and the original comment, are JOKING!
Damn im so early! Thanks for the awedome videos scott i always learn a ton
6:13 Sorry Scott, but the engine that was hit by a drone was an RVac, not an RC
I heard him say that, and it was the first I’ve heard of a drone strike on the starship. I tried googling to find out more but the results are flooded with ai generated “news” reports about flight 7 in general and the stupid Jersey Drone panic. Can someone point me in the right direction to actual info about this drone strike?
Yeah I have been looking for that video too. I only saw the Rvac pulled by the cyber truck hit by a drone
Who cares.
Scott, During the Starship launch the fuel and oxidizer levels are displayed on the video display. How are the fuel levels actually measured during launch in both the booster and Starship?
TIL a new word: Astrometry.
Thats the best thumbnails i saw in recent years❤😁
Back in the 80s missile defense was called SDI Strategic Defense Initiative. I worked on some of that stuff. The problem with getting a good SDI system in place is always political. We'd get funding during GOP presidents and then get cut off by Dem presidents. Start, stop, start, stop is a lousy way to run a program. There are some defense missiles deployed in Alaska and California.
Good content, well researched, well presented and much enjoyed.
Mars sample retrieval method will likely be modified as we develop drone tech which could be involved in collecting samples on Mars and bringing them back to the launch vehicle back to Earth. I'm sure this has been thought about by many others. Cheers.
Lol, all the Mars rovers for 20+ years are drones.
At one point Perseverance was dropping half of its sample tubes on the ground and the first plan was to use rovers to pick them up, but with the success of Ingenuity they changed it to using drones to grab the samples.
Seems like now they are just planning on having Perseverance deliver the samples, but last I heard they are still taking two samples of everything and dropping one on the surface
22:22. Except the teenage boys are locked in a cabin with a window where they can watch outside and a good chance of death if anything bad happens, plus no hope of rescue in that case. What an absolute BS comparison.
Scott, you never told us you were launching a satellite! When you say "a UA-camr launching satellites on this" you're the first UA-camr I know that would put mass into orbit! :D
Its true, who would not like to be in space for longer, especialy astronauts! 😂 Has to be one of the most epic jobs possible.
I had to pause the video when Scott was talking about a teenage boy on a super model nude beach. I'm sure he is correct. Astronauts WANT to be in space or flying. That's why they do what they do!
If i was an astronaut and was told "sorry, you need to do what you love a little longer" i'd be ecstatic!
Would have been a blast to live scratch a VJ set to such a crowd... so much cool content to choose from :-)
Hopefully China will be dropping less stuff on people's villages in the future.
Yeah...
Hopefully, you can donate huge money to help China move these launch centers to the seaside.
Hopefully so will HeilX
Success of Spadex mission bring us closer to our goal of having a Space station
Sounds like India was correct because Europe is technically not a single country so they would classify as the third* country to achieve this.
Right
Hmm, correct
6:20 they totally told you things ;)
Man I wouldn't wanna be an American rocket company right now, now that the "department of government efficiency" will mysteriously find that SpaceX is the most efficient launch provider and any funding for other launch providers and related projects is "government waste"
absolutely
however, by presidential XO, doge has become the D in USDS (formerly the D of digital) - so elon would appear to be "the IT guy" in Trump vision
Disagree. Now is the golden age for US Space Companies. Trump is very supportive of Space endevours. He know about the importance of having several supliers of services compete. And he put a real Space Nerd visionary man as head of NASA. This is good times! 🚀🇺🇲💪
@@mbj__ sounds like you've been sampling the koolaid
There is NO MYSTERY, it is just a fact SpaceX knows how to be effective and efficient.
I mean currently they are the most efficient. But I get your point
Missed ya❤
Who would have guessed that Musk and Trump are full of shit.
Can’t tell, keep crying and take your childish ass over to MSLSD.
And the derangement continues!
Only you?
Cap
What a pointless comment
Woah... I really like that optical communications concept. Hell... that could work for devices *not* in space. Working on planes, we have some *very* long and heavy wire runs to various fuel sensors in the wings, and maybe that wire conduit could just be an empty tube with optical transmitters and receivers on either end.
you mean like an optical fibre? These types of solutions have been proposed often. the issue with light communication is that you need a light source, a laser normally, which draws more power than the sensors now used and can cause heating up and constitutes a fire hazard. there is a lot of R&D on the topic but nothing that made it into boeing or Airbus AFAIK
@tommasoseresini6350 yes, but without the fibre. Just like in the video, you could have just regular low power LEDs (albeit bright) at the end of a long tube (probably aluminum for reflectivity and weight, our wire conduits tend to be aluminum anyway) and photoreceptors at the other end.
There are a lot of reasons I can think it wouldn't work well or even save weight, but would love to conduct some thorough engineering studies.
@@Kuriente The big problem is airplanes flex, sometimes quite a bit. Trying to put those optical comms in the wings is just begging for a gust of wind to hit at the worst possible time and throw a relay out of alignment. Hell, from what I remember most aircraft don't even use fiber optic cable because conventional wire is significantly more durable.
@griffinfaulkner3514 but that's true for hardwired systems already. In fact, one of the things that attracts me to this idea is that it should *reduce* physical componentry that is susceptible to wing flex. Instead of physical wires and cannon plugs that span and flex across an entire wing, you could have a few optical relay stations that flash signals that bounce through existing-but-now-empty aluminum conduit.
@@Kuriente And you think existing cabling isn't built with extra slack and flexibility specifically to account for that? If the airframe is flexing to the point that data cabling is pulled apart, odds are the airframe itself has already failed.
Increasing the SDA or Star Wars mission makes way more sense than an Iron Dome system that makes absolutely no sense.
But I rather have them spent a few million dollars to fix the ATC whom seams really short staffed.
"They dont want to tell me anything." Shades of KSP2, "dont tell scott manlry." 😅
Elon Musk should be called out and boycotted.
Starting here.
Scott, great content about stuff going up...
What about all the stuff coming down?
I don't like politics to interfere with my love of space and all things related to rockets and spaceflight, but I am getting sick of Elon and his throwing his heart out to people like a Roman, in a way that was popular in 1939, and other similar political shenanigans, and as a result I am cooling my enthusiasm for SpaceX, and shifting that to Stoke Space and RocketLab mostly, can't wait to hear about their imminent successes.
Yes! His pandering to fascists has really killed my enthusiasm for SpaceX.
I'm right with you on that. I'd prefer to never hear another word about that psychopath and anything he's associated with.
Im most worried about him now demanding control of NASA so he can hurt the other companies and funnel money to himself, hurting our overall space program.
You're only upset because the TV told you to be upset. They only told you because Elon supported the 'wrong' team. It's pretty hilarious to see people pretend an African-American billion is a vintage nationalist socialist supporter while glossing over the actual people who started the US space program. You'd think it's funny too, if they told you to think it's funny 😂
@@shakehandswithdanger7882 I haven't had a TV in over 20 years. And even if I did, I sure wouldn't get any American stations here in Jamaica. The man is simply a Grade-A douche.
yeah, i wanna see and listen to your dj set ;-)